It's hard to say what counts as coin shops vs. antique shops that sell coins (often in a special room or section) vs. regular assorted stuff shops that happen to have coins in the inventory. Never mind stamp and/or banknote shops that also sell coins - which can show up in some hobby malls...
(I've even bought some coins from a newspaper stand once... okay, three times. From three different places. How do you count that?)
Also I'm not sure how to count weekend market stalls (some of the ones at the Vernisage are at the exact same spot week after week). And some of those focus on antiques more than coins, as well...
And how to count Taganka, an open-air coin market on a street corner? It's kind of like a coin show, but I don't think you can have a coin show that is open most of the day every day.
(How do you count street vendors that sell coins, for that matter? Pretty sure I've even seen one that sold only coins once in Nessebar.)
As such, depending on your definition of "coin shop" (and "visited", for that matter - does it count, for example, if I never bought anything there because I wasn't interested in any coins offered and/or because it was all way out of my budget?), the answer could vary widely.
I'd estimate the amount of different coin shops I visited to be somewhere between 10 and 150 (and the minimum value mostly consists of tiny hobby mall spots where I bought 1-2 coins once and hardly ever went there again - most of the bigger places that I regularly visit sell a lot of non-coin stuff and/or are market stalls).
(I've even bought some coins from a newspaper stand once... okay, three times. From three different places. How do you count that?)
Also I'm not sure how to count weekend market stalls (some of the ones at the Vernisage are at the exact same spot week after week). And some of those focus on antiques more than coins, as well...
And how to count Taganka, an open-air coin market on a street corner? It's kind of like a coin show, but I don't think you can have a coin show that is open most of the day every day.
(How do you count street vendors that sell coins, for that matter? Pretty sure I've even seen one that sold only coins once in Nessebar.)
As such, depending on your definition of "coin shop" (and "visited", for that matter - does it count, for example, if I never bought anything there because I wasn't interested in any coins offered and/or because it was all way out of my budget?), the answer could vary widely.
I'd estimate the amount of different coin shops I visited to be somewhere between 10 and 150 (and the minimum value mostly consists of tiny hobby mall spots where I bought 1-2 coins once and hardly ever went there again - most of the bigger places that I regularly visit sell a lot of non-coin stuff and/or are market stalls).


























